US History Resources

Richmond Public Schools CPR United States History

2008 Standards


2015 Standards

Richmond Public Schools CPR Units United States History

Additional Primary Resources

Historical Thinking -http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/why/

• What is Historical Thinking? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSJLmWnxrPg

Stanford History Education Group - https://sheg.stanford.edu/ (free membership required)

• Reading Like a Historian (Teachers) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnWnLNSZTAg
• Reading Like a Historian (Students) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWz08mVUIt8
• Beyond the Bubble (Historical Perspective) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-DDFHgTAyk
• Beyond the Bubble (Sourcing) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ledQNzuiHgU
• Beyond the Bubble (Narrative) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeYP92T0rms
• Beyond the Bubble (Scaffolding) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KVPR0PQUAE
• Beyond the Bubble (Contextualization) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTCsplP5EeQ
• Beyond the Bubble (Adapting Sources) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJHoc1Dz7EU
• Beyond the Bubble (Opening up the Textbook) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G429hI6HL4
• Beyond the bubble (Creating HATS) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEzlPOP8Py4

Howard Zinn's A People History of the United States

Voices from a People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove

• Intro – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRIZ6cmkR_c&list=PLC984687F7C7449A1&index=1
• This Land is your Land by Woody Guthrie (Steve Earl) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tJabvwizkI&list=PL2Fem0uf6miRl6jA1PkXdDTyxdhD8zyPH&index=37
• Bartolome de Las Casas' "The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvlTG4yVByY&list=PL2Fem0uf6miRl6jA1PkXdDTyxdhD8zyPH&index=26
• Joseph Plumb Martin's "A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier." (Josh Brolin) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv3O6YAGmio&index=63&list=PL2Fem0uf6miRl6jA1PkXdDTyxdhD8zyPH
• Tecumseh's "Speech to the Osages." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45MbnpT2hXA&index=5&list=PLC984687F7C7449A1
• Henry David Thoreau's 1849 essay, "Civil Disobedience." Part of a reading of Voices of a People's History of the United States (Mark Ruffalo) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z0o_MAU0ao&list=PL2Fem0uf6miRl6jA1PkXdDTyxdhD8zyPH&index=13
• 1833 speech of abolitionist Maria Stewart (Kerry Washington) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7HDw3do4RA&index=54&list=PL2Fem0uf6miRl6jA1PkXdDTyxdhD8zyPH
• Frederick Douglass's "The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro." (James Earl Jones) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tTkHJWxfP0
• Sojourner Truth’s “Aint I a Woman” (Kerry Washington) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq3AYiRT4no&list=PL2Fem0uf6miRl6jA1PkXdDTyxdhD8zyPH&index=35
• John Brown's words as he addresses the court in his own defense (Josh Brolin) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_-wNiyaWvY&list=PL2Fem0uf6miRl6jA1PkXdDTyxdhD8zyPH&index=50
• Susan B Anthony's "Susan B Anthony Addresses Judge Ward Hunt in the United States of America vs Susan B Anthony. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1lsxVT_l90&list=PL2Fem0uf6miRl6jA1PkXdDTyxdhD8zyPH&index=20
• Mark Twain's "Comments on the Moro Massacre." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW5Z48CQdls&index=8&list=PLC984687F7C7449A1
• Eugene Debs' famous "Canton, Ohio" speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuGp-0G1p4M&index=28&list=PL2Fem0uf6miRl6jA1PkXdDTyxdhD8zyPH
• Helen Keller's "Strike Against War - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjoYmWH2dVA&list=PLC984687F7C7449A1&index=9
• Langston Hughes's poem "Montage of a Dream Deferred." (Danny Glover) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCaKOQjtF3w&index=24&list=PL2Fem0uf6miRl6jA1PkXdDTyxdhD8zyPH
• Yuri Kochiyama's "Then Came the War (1991)." (Sandra Oh)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApXSv6845cU&index=45&list=PL2Fem0uf6miRl6jA1PkXdDTyxdhD8zyPH
• John Lewis's "Original Text of Speech to be Delivered at the Lincoln Memorial (1963)." (Danny Glover) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S_l9wtsleI&index=56&list=PL2Fem0uf6miRl6jA1PkXdDTyxdhD8zyPH
• Malcolm X's "Message to the Grass Roots" on November 9, 2006 (Mos Def) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzC3ZKzkTOM&index=16&list=PL2Fem0uf6miRl6jA1PkXdDTyxdhD8zyPH
• Martin Luther King's "Beyond Vietnam." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chHz_e2MGNU&index=12&list=PLC984687F7C7449A1
• Cesar Chavez's "Address to the Commonwealth Club of California." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdUlwKo7AGo&index=13&list=PLC984687F7C7449A1
• Vitto Russo's "Why We Fight." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eD_DqgygCI&index=14&list=PLC984687F7C7449A1
• Winona La Duke's "Acceptance Speech for The Green Party Nomination" from August 29, 1996 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdW1AO3n-SE&list=PLC984687F7C7449A1&index=15
• Julia Butterfly Hill's "Surviving the Storm." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ4SM0Bbd_0&index=16&list=PLC984687F7C7449A1
• Orlando & Phyllis Rodriguez's "Not in Our Son's Name." (Benjamin Bratt) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4p48PjzOw4&index=66&list=PL2Fem0uf6miRl6jA1PkXdDTyxdhD8zyPH
• Rachel Corrie's "Letter from Palestine." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiwa_ppKuyw&index=18&list=PLC984687F7C7449A1
• Patti Smith's "The People Have The Power." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYHPg5Fkjtw&index=19&list=PLC984687F7C7449A1

Yale Urban Teachers Institute - http://teachers.yale.edu/default.php

Mr. Robinson's Yale Curriculum Units

Primary Source Analysis Sheets

S.O.A.P.S. Primary Document Analysis

Map Analysis Worksheet

Artifact Analysis Sheet


Graphic Organizers
Templates -
https://surry.haikulearning.com/hauserc/misshausersclass/cms_page/view/1375393